All questions are optional. Please complete the demographics section as that makes the data much more useful.

If you enter a company name, it will be masked before the data is released. The company name will only be used to connect multiple users from the same company. No company name will be made publicly available.

The Email ID is strictly to allow me to email the results to you. As thanks for answering this, I will email you the results if you do choose to enter an email address. Your email ID will never be made public, will not be part of the downloadable data and will not be used or sold for anything other than sending you the data.

All data, including all of the raw data (minus the email ID and with company name masked) will be released on the internet as a free download to anyone who wants it.

1. Optional Email ID (so that the survey results can be sent to you):

2. Optional Company Name (data will be masked before release to the public):

16. Have you or your company ever migrated from a commercial data (i.e. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc) to an open source database (i.e. MySQL, Ingres, Postgres, etc):

YesNoI Don't Know

17. If the answer to the question above (dealing with migration) was YES, was the migration successful:

YesNoI Don't Know

18. Have you or your company ever paid for services, support or training for an open source database:

YesNoI Don't Know

19. If you have used an open source database, how would you classify open source databases in general:

Open source databases are betterCommercial databases and open source databases are about the sameCommercial databases are betterOther (Please Specify)

20. If you or your company has not used an open source database, why:

Open source software has security issuesOpen source cannot scaleOpen source software is buggy/unreliableWe need the support that a commercial company providesOpen source cannot meet my/our needsOpen source documentation is not good enoughOther (Please Specify)

21. If you or your company IS using an open source database, why:

Open source meets my/our needsOpen source software has less bugsOpen source software is cheaperOpen source software is more secureWe believe in the philosophy of open sourceOther (Please Specify)

22. How large is your largest database:

Less than 1GBBetween 1GB - 25GBBetween 25GB and 100 GBBetween 100GB and 1TBBetween 1TB and 5TBGreater than 5TB